Nottingham City Transport is the principal bus operator in Greater Nottingham, with 330 buses providing a comprehensive network of services acrossthe city, 7 days a week. Our Pathfinder and South Notts buses also travel beyond the city boundary to provide daily services between Nottingham and East Leake, Gotham, Loughborough and Southwell.
NCT also operates flagship contract services on behalf of Nottingham City Council. These include the very popular Queen’s Drive and Racecourse Park & Ride services. In addition, many of the Local Link services are also operated by NCT to provide an integrated transport network in the City.
NCT was ‘privatised’ in 1986 and Nottingham City Council held 100% equity of the company until 2000, when Transdev PLC the UK arm of the French multi national transport operator acquired an effective 18% stake in the company.
Mission Statement
Providing those we serve with a safe, reliable, value for money, integrated, public transport network which has the least impact on our environment.
NCT in numbers
Some interesting facts and figures about NCT:
- NCT is the 5th biggest private employer in Greater Nottingham – the top 4 are all multi-national organisations
- 91% customer satisfaction score – 2nd highest in the UK (independant Passenger Focus Research)
- Passenger trips per year: 51.6 million (2011/12)
- Bus journeys scheduled to run every week: 38,758 – over 2 million a year
- Litres of fuel used per year: 9 million litres
- Number of drivers: 830
- Hours of service per week: 23,175 – about 1.2 million per year
- Kilometres operated per week: 378,037 – nearly 2 million a year
- Number of buses operated: 331
- Percentage of accessible buses: 100%
- Number of routes operated: 67
- Longest route: 26km
- Calls to the Travel Centre per month: averaging 6,000
- Online page views: averaging 60,000 a day
- Facebook Fans - over 18,000 following Nottingham City Transport